Highest SA award for Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru and President Sukarno of Indonesia have been posthumously conferred with South Africa's highest award for foreigners.

President Thabo Mbeki conferred the awards as a special recognition of the two leaders' pioneering work in Afro-Asian solidarity.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who has been invited to Pretoria to accept the 'Order of the Companion of O R Tambo' (gold), is deputing her son Rahul to receive it on April 26,

Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of the late Indonesian President will receive the award on Sukarno's behalf.